Elasticsearch vs Zinc for 40TB Dataset

TLDR Josh asks if zinc works for a 40TB dataset. Prabhat replies that zinc is not suitable due to single node limitation but suggests using zinc-observe for petabyte scale data.

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Josh
Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:10:04 UTC

I have some basic qqs for elasticsearch vs zinc

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Josh
Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:10:23 UTC

I have a 40TB / 10B document dataset

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Josh
Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:10:35 UTC

does zinc work for this scale?

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Prabhat
Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:11:15 UTC

Is this for log search or app search?

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Josh
Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:20:56 UTC

app search i guess

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Prabhat
Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:24:19 UTC

zinc currently can run only on a single node. Supporting 40 TB on a single node does not really work. So zinc might work well for your app search use case. However if you had log data that you wanted to search you could use zinc-observe () that supports petabyte scale data.